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Though the 2019 Formula 1 season featured a diverse range of storylines, the headlines were dominated by the championship's top two teams

This season, the first year in which F1 was shown almost exclusively on Sky - Channel 4 broadcasting only one race (Silverstone) live - has seen viewer numbers in the UK plummet by almost 9 million.

Antonio Giovinazzi's Formula 1 career could have been decided by his late crash out of the points in the Belgian Grand Prix, Alfa Romeo team boss Frederic Vasseur says

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Off-track, the 2019 Formula 1 season was dominated by the debate over what direction the sport will take in 2021 and beyond. For journalists it was the gift that kept on giving, with discussions continuing for much of the year, and thus there was much for the media to dissect prior to the revelation of the regulations in October. Or, to be more accurate, the three sets of regulations, as the ... Keep reading

A budget cap of $175million will be implemented from 2021, but will not apply to engine development or driver salaries, while other exemptions such as the company’s top three earners will also be allowed. On top of the new financial regulations and sweeping new technical and sporting rules for 2021, F1’s owners have to strike new commercial deals with the existing teams as the current ... Keep reading

McLaren's Lando Norris says he was "too jokey" at times in his rookie Formula 1 season and needs to find a better compromise with more focus in his sophomore year

Six years of F1’s hybrid-turbo era and a dozen titles – drivers’ and constructors’ each time – safely stowed in the trophy cabinet. Mercedes’ race form in 2019 was as strong as expected, yet its pre-season didn’t quite kick off as intended – with an aerodynamic revamp required to overcome winter world champions Ferrari. It rocketed out of the blocks when it mattered, however ... Keep reading

Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner admits he feared the situation between drivers Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean would not be "manageable" during the 2019 season

The duo clashed several times during the year, the most notable contacts in the Spanish, British and German Grands Prix. After the Silverstone clash, in which they touched wheels but still went on to finish in the points, Steiner felt dealing with his drivers was a unnecessary "struggle" given the problems Haas was already having with its car. Asked by Motorsport.com if he thought the ... Keep reading

Ferrari believes Formula 1 needs to develop a stricter budget cap over time to reinforce the championship's economic viability, otherwise it is "slowly going to die"

The Japanese manufacturer has been lauded by Red Bull for producing the gains it promised this season, thanks to an aggressive development programme that included three specification upgrades. Although Honda had initially wanted to start the season with what eventually became the Spec 2 engine, it has hit the schedule it agreed with Red Bull before the winter of 2018/19, and Motorsport.com ... Keep reading

Racing Point driver Sergio Perez thinks Formula 1 TV directors are "not doing a great job" of capturing the most exciting on-track moments during grand prix weekends

Perez overtook Lando Norris on the final lap of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which also meant he beat Norris to 10th in the drivers' championship, but the pass was not shown on the live broadcast as race winner Lewis Hamilton was completing his final lap.  Norris's McLaren teammate Carlos Sainz also completed a decisive final-lap overtake to secure sixth in the drivers' ... Keep reading

In many ways, 2020 is a make or break season for Sebastian Vettel. Yet, despite the apparent pressure and the seeming lack of time, the German insists that he has nothing to prove to anyone, only himself.

There was a prevailing narrative in 2019 that will remain many people's defining memory of the season - that it was a campaign in which Ferrari did everything wrong and repeatedly shot itself in the foot despite having built a great car. It is indeed undeniable that the Scuderia got some things very wrong during the year, and equally so that some of the decisions taken were masterstrokes. When ... Keep reading

Honda believes its ability to hit its engine targets in Formula 1 this season has been key to building mutual trust with its new partner Red Bull

Kubica's arm was partially severed in a rallying accident in 2011, which kept him on the F1 sidelines for eight years until he joined Williams for 2019. His comeback coincided with a dreadful season for Williams, and Kubica, whose 10th-place finish in the German Grand Prix marked the team's only point, was outqualified 21-0 by George Russell. Kubica said that although the season was not what ... Keep reading

After winning the pre-season testing war, this was the year that Ferrari was supposed to truly challenge Mercedes for the world championship. So what went wrong? Besides Bahrain, where newcomer Charles Leclerc was robbed of a first win due to an engine problem, its early-season form was poor and a lack of downforce was apparent. Only when the season hit the lower-downforce or power-dependent ... Keep reading

Robert Kubica says 'closing a chapter' by returning to Formula 1 was worth it despite his and Williams's "complicated" season

More than ever before, current Formula 1 drivers use simulators to improve their craft away from the race track

More than ever before, current Formula 1 drivers use simulators to improve their craft away from the race track. In this video, Jack Benyon visits Carlos Sainz’s house as the McLaren F1 driver receives a brand new Cool Performance simulator to use in his spare time. We take a look at the installation process and ask Sainz why he has taken the step to copy teammate Lando Norris’s decision ... Keep reading

Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he misses the support of Niki Lauda, and that he still revisits old messages between the pair

Mercedes' non-executive chairman and three-time F1 champion Lauda passed away during the week of the Monaco Grand Prix, with the team paying tribute by running a red star on the engine cover and a red halo on the W10, and Hamilton also using a special tribute crash helmet. Hamilton has previously admitted to battling mental "demons" during the 2019 season because of the death of Lauda, and ... Keep reading

Ahead of the launch of a new social media page dedicated to her husband's fight, Corinna Schumacher has called on his fans to unite, have faith and remain strong.

In its first year with Honda power, expectations for 2019 weren’t stellar – even though Helmut Marko claimed it would win five races! In fact, Red Bull Racing won three – all with undisputed lead driver Max Verstappen (Austria, Germany and Brazil) – while Pierre Gasly’s poor form of the first half of the season, which resulted in his demotion to Toro Rosso, meant the team actually just ... Keep reading

Sainz joined the Woking team from Renault for this year after just one full season, admitting the final races with the French manufacturer were "weird" ahead of his exit. The Spaniard has a two-year contract with McLaren and 2019 has been the first time he has gone into the off-season with his future sorted. He reckons that has allowed him to show a "new Carlos" that people had not seen ... Keep reading

Carlos Sainz Jr says having a longer contract with McLaren gave him the chance to show what he is really capable of during the 2019 Formula 1 season

Max Verstappen says stewarding in Formula 1 is the same as refereeing in football, as personal interpretation will always play a key role in decisions

Verstappen was at the centre of a clear shift in policy from the FIA this season, after his aggressive last-gasp overtake on Charles Leclerc to win the Austrian Grand Prix was investigated without punishment. At the next race in Britain, Verstappen and Leclerc went wheel-to-wheel again in another fierce fight that ended without either driver being penalised, as the governing body and its ... Keep reading

With its Honda nightmare firmly in the rear-view mirror, McLaren built upon the foundations of its Renault-powered era with a much-improved 2019 season that resulted in a best-of-the-rest position behind the big three teams. Team newcomer Carlos Sainz scored his first F1 podium (and the team’s first since 2014) in the Brazilian Grand Prix, and followed that up by sealing sixth in the drivers’ ... Keep reading

Honda's improved reliability in Formula 1 has allowed it to invest more time in performance development instead of being distracted by "clean-up" work finding fixes to problems

Vettel was running in third place in Singapore, behind teammate Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, but put first to undercut the Mercedes driver. The early stop inadvertently allowed Vettel to get ahead of poleman Leclerc as well, and Ferrari chose not to force the four-time world champion to let Leclerc back through as Vettel moved clear in traffic and Leclerc was caught by Red Bull's Max ... Keep reading

Albon made his F1 debut at the start of 2019 driving for Red Bull’s junior team Toro Rosso, a chance he had to negotiate his way out of a signed Nissan Formula E contract to take. A strong first half of the season, combined with Pierre Gasly underperforming a Red Bull, led to a shock mid-season call-up for Albon to partner Max Verstappen in the race-winning senior team. Albon has earned a ... Keep reading

The Japanese manufacturer's first year with Red Bull included three wins, two pole positions and a full season without a retirement caused by an engine problem. Though Honda still needs to prove it can complete a full year penalty-free, as Red Bull used extra engines this year to facilitate its partner bringing more upgrades to catch Ferrari and Mercedes, its gains in reliability and ... Keep reading

Ferrari Formula 1 boss Mattia Binotto believes it was right to let Sebastian Vettel win this year's Singapore Grand Prix to boost his confidence and his trust in the team

McLaren Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr has explained why his "Smooth Operator" messages from the 1984 song by Sade became a recurring joke in 2019

Alex Albon says the change that came with his mid-year move to Red Bull was "almost like starting back at square one" midway through his rookie Formula 1 season

Sainz took the second of his four top-five finishes in Formula 1 in Hungary, where following an exchange with his radio engineer, he said, ‘Thomas, you know what that was,’ before singing the song. As a consequence, the song was persistently linked to him, with social media messages and YouTube videos dedicated to the combination. Sainz repeated his rendition of the song after taking ... Keep reading

With a year of Honda experience under its belt, this was a season where the tiny Faenza-based team was able to focus on improving aero performance, putting it in a stronger position to pounce on the bigger teams ahead of it. The highlight looked like it would be Daniil Kvyat’s third-place finish in the chaotic German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, only the team’s second podium in its history… ... Keep reading

Williams Grand Prix Holdings plc has entered into an agreement for the sale of a majority equity stake in Williams Advanced Engineering Limited.

Ferrari wants to add female drivers to its Formula 1 junior programme and is working to make sure it happens "very soon"

Williams has announced it has agreed to sell a majority equity stake into sister company Williams Advanced Engineering

Founded in 2011, WAE is the engineering services business of the Williams Group that owns the Formula 1 team. It employs over 300 people working in 40 different technology projects. The stake will be sold to an independent private equity firm controlled by EMK Capital. Williams said it will retain a minority interest in the WAE business. WAE was the sole battery supplier for Formula E ... Keep reading

Be part of the excitement with an adrenaline-fuelled trip to the Arabian Gulf

Only six women have ever participated in an official Formula 1 world championship weekend and Lella Lombardi remains the most successful with a best result of sixth in the shortened 1975 Spanish Grand Prix, which earned her half a point. The most recent female participant was Susie Wolff, who took part in four practice sessions across the 2014 and 2015 seasons, while Giovanna Amati was the last ... Keep reading

Honda’s return to the top step of the podium was one of the most extraordinary aspects of the 2019 F1 season, and it fully vindicated what turned out to be a brilliant strategic decision by Red Bull bosses Helmut Marko, Christian Horner and Adrian Newey. For Honda it was redemption after three painful years with McLaren that were so unfortunately characterised by Fernando Alonso’s infamous ... Keep reading

In the desire to maintain page impressions and justify our exorbitant wage bill we dug deep into the past, finally finding an obscure 5-word quote on which we could base a 10,000 word article, along with a fascinating image gallery.

Valtteri Bottas says he was given a "great opportunity" in 2019 to work with one of Lewis Hamilton's ex-engineers and learn more about the six-time Formula 1 world champion's methods

Bottas needed a new race engineer this season after Tony Ross moved across to Mercedes' fledgling Formula E entry, and the decision was taken to replace him with Hamilton's performance engineer Riccardo Musconi. At the start of 2019 Bottas won two of the first four races and led the points, and though he eventually faded from title contention and was defeated by Hamilton he had stronger form ... Keep reading

Bahrain has been part of Formula 1 history since 2004 and, every year, motorsport fans travel to the Arabian Gulf for the first night race on the calendar

Following its takeover by the consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, the renamed Force India team had a lot of catching up to do after such a lengthy period of financial uncertainty, which had certainly stymied its development abilities. As a result, this was a season of rebuilding, with promising signs towards the closing races of the year as the consistent Sergio Perez scored eight points-scoring ... Keep reading

Ahead of the 2019 season Sauber's F1 entry was rebadged in the name of the Italian car manufacturer, to grow the partnership that started in 2018. Alfa's 2019 car retained Sauber's long-standing 'C' designation but the Sauber name itself dropped off the grid for the first time since its made its debut in 1993. At the end of the first season as the Alfa team, Vasseur told Motorsport.com he ... Keep reading

Frederic Vasseur called Peter Sauber before anyone else about rebranding his Formula 1 team as Alfa Romeo, which he says will be in place for the "long-term"

As he reflects on 2019, a year in which his team won its sixth successive titles, Toto Wolff appears to already be taking his preferred underdog position for 2021.

Jean Todt admits that it could be decades before Formula E might give F1 a run for its money.

Charles Leclerc signs new five-year contract with Ferrari until 2024 after impressive opening season.

Jog your memory and then vote for your best moment of the past decade in Formula 1.

BBC Sport's F1 team share their moments of the decade featuring Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso.

Charles Leclerc signs new five-year contract with Ferrari until 2024 after impressive opening season.

Charles Leclerc signs new five-year contract with Ferrari until 2024 after impressive opening season.

Charles Leclerc has extended his contract with the Ferrari Formula 1 team, in a deal that means he will stay at the squad until at least the end of 2024

Charles Leclerc agrees a contract extension that will keep him at Maranello until the end of 2024.

Leclerc joined Ferrari for 2019 after just one season in Formula 1 with Sauber, replacing Kimi Raikkonen alongside Sebastian Vettel. The Monegasque secured Ferrari's first win of the year in Belgium, although victory in Bahrain was on the cards until the suffered car problems. He went on to win the Italian Grand Prix on his way to fourth in the standings ahead of Vettel. Leclerc also ... Keep reading

Red Bull's desire to join its junior team Toro Rosso in partnering Honda this year meant the Japanese manufacturer had two teams on the grid for the first time in the V6 turbo-hybrid era. It last supplied two teams at the start of 2008, before the Super Aguri folded early in the year and left Honda's works team as its only entry. Honda was not caught out by supplying two teams in 2019 – as ... Keep reading

Honda asked its trackside staff for problems or concerns that arose in the 'challenge' of supplying two Formula 1 teams for the first time, so it can improve next season

The rebranded Sauber team started the season well, with Kimi Raikkonen (who switched places with Ferrari-bound Charles Leclerc) scoring in the first four races, then another four out of five before the summer break – as penalties in the German Grand Prix, for clutch setting offences, cost a double points payday. After the break, the team really struggled for pace – with only the chaotic ... Keep reading

Toto Wolff says Mercedes' record-breaking success does not buy the team "any credit" for the challenges that will arrive with Formula 1's "upside-down" rules from 2021

Red Bull team boss, Christian Horner is delighted with the first year working with Honda, saying that the Japanese manufacturer is the perfect partner and delivered on all its promises.

This season Mercedes became the first team to win six consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ world titles, having matched Ferrari’s previous record from 2000 to 2004 last year. It also meant Mercedes remained on top through another regulation change, having maintained its dominance through the major aerodynamic shake-up of 2017 and again when the front-wing rules changed for ... Keep reading

With 8 drivers on the 2020 grid younger than him, and six having made their F1 debuts as teenagers, Nicholas Latifi defends his late arrival.

Ferrari Formula 1 boss Mattia Binotto has admitted meetings with Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc were "full of embarrassments" when he first tried to manage them early in the season

At the start of 2019 Binotto named four-time world champion Vettel as the team’s expected route to the title this year, given his experience compared to sophomore F1 driver Leclerc, who was preparing for his first season at Ferrari. That meant Vettel would be given priority in 50/50 scenarios as Ferrari embraced the idea of using team orders for the greater good. “And believe me, that ... Keep reading

Following his most successful season since entering F1, Carlos Sainz believes the 2021 regulation changes represent a significant opportunity for McLaren.

A somewhat bizarre season for the Haas F1 Team, with the off-track distraction of the Rich Energy sponsor saga added to by technical woes that led to running its cars in two different specifications at times in an attempt to solve handling inconsistency issues. It ended the season with Romain Grosjean using the very floor in the final race of the season that he’d used in pre-season testing! ... Keep reading

Mercedes has a "sensational driver line-up" in Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas that is competitive without compromising the team's objectives, says its Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff

"They are stealing the race from us," was Sebastian Vettel's furious message at his Ferrari team after he was told about the controversial penalty that robbed him of victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. The four-time champion had started from pole ahead of Lewis Hamilton and had led for most of the race, the Briton following closely but unable to get enough of a tow from the ultra-fast Ferrari ... Keep reading

The Red Bull-Renault partnership won four consecutive F1 title doubles from 2010 to 2013, but that relationship soured as Renault struggled in the V6 turbo-hybrid era and Red Bull grew increasingly frustrated at what it felt was a lack of progress in performance and reliability. Red Bull took advantage of McLaren’s split from Honda to get junior team Toro Rosso to partner with the Japanese ... Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner says the team finally had all its engine promises delivered for the first time, after switching from Renault to Honda in 2019

Six-time world champion Hamilton and multiple race winner Bottas have been paired together since 2017, when Bottas was picked to replace retired world champion Nico Rosberg. Bottas and Hamilton have a very amicable relationship, helped by Bottas not challenging Hamilton over a full season in the way Rosberg was able to – while still doing more than enough to secure Mercedes’ three straight ... Keep reading

The Williams FW42 was late to the start of the party in 2019, as it suffered delays in the build of the car and totally missed the first few days of the pre-season test. When the car did emerge there were several design components that raised eyebrows, with questions marks surrounding the front suspension and mirrors, which only added further drama as the team scrambled to rectify designs that ... Keep reading

Formula 1 fans rarely pay much attention to stories about sponsors, but the saga surrounding Rich Energy's backing of the Haas team took on an extra dimension as it played out across social media during the 2019 season. Rich first gained attention in F1 circles in 2018, when its boss William Storey attempted to buy into the struggling Force India team. His efforts came to nought, and the ... Keep reading

The clash between Formula 1 team-mates Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc was a necessary "crisis" to establish ground rules within the team, says Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri

Leclerc joined Vettel at Ferrari for 2019 after just one season in F1 but quickly established himself as a rival to the four-time world champion, claimed all of the team's major breakthroughs this year and beat Vettel in the championship. However, Leclerc's impressive season contributed to some on-track flashpoints with Vettel, starting with team orders disagreements and escalating to a ... Keep reading

Daniel Ricciardo admits he and his Renault Formula 1 team were left "scratching our heads" at some of the lows they endured during the 2019 season

On the heels of a disrupted pre-season, the Grove-based outfit spent the year firmly at the back of the pack and almost always significantly adrift of its competition, with its two drivers Russell and Robert Kubica usually left to battle exclusively among themselves. And though Kubica capitalised on the opportunity to pick up Williams' sole point of the season in a chaotic rain-hit German Grand ... Keep reading

Red Bull team boss, Christian Horner believes that Max Verstappen is currently the sport's most in-form driver.

FIA president Jean Todt believes Formula 1 will not become fully-electric for decades, if at all

Ricciardo joined Renault from Red Bull for this year and scored a best result of fourth, in Italy, but was only ninth in the drivers' championship as Renault slipped to fifth in the constructors'. The team failed to build on its fourth-place finish in the championship last year and had a rollercoaster season, performing better on low-downforce tracks as its aerodynamic deficiencies came to ... Keep reading

Verstappen's Red Bull team partnered with Honda for the first time in 2019 after opting to split from long-time supplier Renault, which Verstappen had an increasingly tense relationship with owing to the French manufacturer's underpowered and unreliable products. Despite Honda starting the year with a significant power deficit, it made good gains through the season and Verstappen won three ... Keep reading

Williams' deputy Formula 1 team principal Claire Williams says she was "blown away" by rookie George Russell's approach and performances during the team's trying 2019 campaign

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has said racing in Monaco days after the death of non-executive chairman Niki Lauda were the most defining days of the team's season

Formula One Management reveals that, based on race promoters data, over 4 million fans attended the 21 races that comprised the 2019 season.

Rossi’s last F1 test came with Ferrari in 2010, although he has raced on four wheels several times since – finishing on the podium and winning his class in the Gulf 12 Hours on Saturday. “I felt like a real F1 driver for a day,” said Rossi after the test. “I didn’t want the day to end.” Read Also: Rossi: “Much has changed” since I last drove an F1 car Rossi ... Keep reading

Official attendances released by Formula 1 shows that the British Grand Prix had the highest attendance of any race in a year in which the future of the race was secured

Max Verstappen says he loves working with Honda because of the Formula 1 manufacturer's working practices and attention to detail, right down to the accuracy of its 'wires and stickers'.

Being Max Verstappen's teammate at Red Bull was always going to be the toughest job on the grid. Having to partner the Dutchman unexpectedly after just one full season did nothing to alleviate the challenge for Pierre Gasly, who was promoted to a Red Bull drive after Daniel Ricciardo decided to move to Renault against all expectations. Even Red Bull boss Christian Horner admitted Gasly's ... Keep reading

At Mercedes’ HQ in Brackley, graduates and placement students play important roles throughout the engineering department – but particularly in the race support room which provides real-time information to the team at the track over a race weekend. “The race support room is an extension of the track office; we replicate some of the jobs that are going on trackside,” explains Dom ... Keep reading

Bottas failed to win a grand prix in 2018 as teammate Lewis Hamilton swept to the title, but put up a stronger fight this season and led the points early on in a year he won four races. Mercedes spent the summer deliberating between the Finn and Esteban Ocon, who has since signed for Renault after Mercedes decided to continue with Bottas for 2020. Bottas told Motorsport.com that his improved ... Keep reading

Behind-the-scenes with the engineers of tomorrow at Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport HQ

While the Formula E series is growing and has attracted interest from fans and manufacturers, Todt is sceptical that battery-powered technology is able to meet F1's speed and distance demands for many years to come. Instead, Todt sees F1's focus remaining on the use of hybrid engines – which not only reuse waste energy but can be made more environmentally friendly through the increased use of ... Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton is a "hero second to none" who Formula 1 must replace with a "Lewis of the new generation", according to two of the championship's most senior leaders

McLaren has long been evaluating an entry into the FIA World Endurance Championship’s new top class, but Brown revealed such a move would be dependent on convergence with IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship’s DPi 2.0 concept after stating that a building a bespoke hypercar will be out of McLaren’s financial reach. Should a McLaren LM Hypercar class entry materialise, it will come in ... Keep reading

Liberty's chief executive Greg Maffei has admitted that, having supposedly missed out on IndyCar, the company is still looking to buy businesses that would "complement" F1.

In this Formula 1 season review edition of The Autosport Podcast, we look back at the biggest stories of 2019

A budget-limited F2 racer in 2018, Albon had earned a Formula E factory drive with Nissan and then swapped it for a Toro Rosso F1 drive after Red Bull made a late-year decision to bring him back into the fold - having previously dropped the Anglo-Thai racer from its junior programme. A solid start to his F1 career then earned Albon a mid-season call-up to the main Red Bull team in place of ... Keep reading

The Italian team's defeat to Mercedes in 2019 ensured it ended the decade without a championship success in F1, as its title drought stretched to an 11th season. However, Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri, speaking alongside team principal Mattia Binotto at a media lunch attended by Motorsport.com, said that a "record" financial year for the car company, including the launch of the SF90 Stradale ... Keep reading

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Alexander Albon feels like he "floated around" through 2019, and admits he has yet to fully comprehend his recent meteoric rise in single-seaters

Valtteri Bottas suspects he would have lost his Mercedes Formula 1 drive with a repeat of 2018, but instead has rediscovered the love of racing that he lost last year

Six-time world champion Hamilton is entering the final year of his contract with Mercedes and though he is expected to remain in F1 into 2021, it is widely thought his next deal will be his last. Hamilton has the chance to become F1's most successful ever driver in terms of championships and wins next year, and has also established himself as its most bankable asset with a global profile that ... Keep reading

Revealing that Red Bull's 2020 contender is currently two weeks ahead of schedule, Helmut Marko is confident for the new season, insisting the Austrian outfit will have no excuses.

AlphaTauri, formerly known as Toro Rosso, is the second team to reveal the launch date of its 2020 contender.

Launching its new Applied Science division, Mercedes has announced a performance partnership with INEOS sailing and cycling teams.

Six-time Formula 1 constructors' championship winners Mercedes have agreed a partnership with Team Ineos' cycling and sailing divisions.

Red Bull motorsport chief Helmut Marko says the team have "no excuses" as they bid to mount a title challenge in 2020.

The team previously known as Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri, has become the second Formula 1 outfit to announce a date for the launch of its 2020 car

The former Scuderia Toro Rosso squad is to show its new machine, which will be raced by Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat, on the evening of Friday, February 14th. The only other team to give a date thus far is Ferrari, with its new car due to be revealed three days earlier, on February 11th. Read Also: Ferrari reveals "very early" 2020 F1 car launch Why Ferrari will test two F1 ... Keep reading

The deal also involves petrochemical company INEOS's sailing team, which is aiming to win the America's Cup and is led by British sailor Sir Ben Ainslie. Mercedes-Benz Applied Science (MBAS) was formed in March 2019, with a remit to "leverage the best of aerospace and motorsport technologies to deliver performance across the domains of land, sea and air", per a Mercedes statement. It has a ... Keep reading

Mercedes has partnered with the Tour de France-winning INEOS cycling outfit that is working with a new 'Applied Science' division the Formula 1 squad has created

The debut of the SF90 at Barcelona left Ferrari and its drivers buoyant following the first week of testing in Spain, and though Mercedes ended the second week strongly it appeared as though Ferrari still had a performance advantage. However, Mercedes went on to dominate the season-opening Australian Grand Prix – and win the first eight races, with five consecutive one-two finishes – while ... Keep reading

Red Bull scored three victories with Max Verstappen in 2019, after recovering from a slow start in its first year with Honda power. Honda has progressed sufficiently to allow Red Bull to challenge Mercedes and Ferrari in race trim over the course of 2019 and has narrowed its performance deficit in qualifying too. Speaking to Red Bull-owned ServusTV this week, Red Bull's motorsport advisor ... Keep reading

Helmut Marko says Red Bull is two weeks ahead of schedule on its 2020 Formula 1 car and has no excuses as it prepares for a title challenge

Ferrari says it is prepared to invest more money in its Formula 1 team, including building a new simulator, as it expects a "significantly more expensive" 2020

The Japanese manufacturer claimed its first podium of the V6 turbo-hybrid era on its debut with Red Bull at the season-opening grand prix, and would go on to end a 13-year win drought in F1 in a season it claimed three victories. It introduced three engine upgrades during the course of the year, one more than its rivals, and the Spec 2 that made its debut in Azerbaijan was originally envisioned ... Keep reading

The 2019 season produced drama, excitement and lots of controversy - take the BBC Sport quiz to see how much you can remember.

Charles Leclerc says his first year as a Ferrari Formula 1 driver was better than he expected because he did not believe he would score such good results in 2019

Though Bottas was eventually defeated in the title battle by Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton, the Finn kickstarted his season by winning the first round in Melbourne and still led the points after four races. Bottas beat poleman Hamilton away at the start to score victory in Australia, where he also earned a bonus point for fastest lap and won by more than 20 seconds as Hamilton battled some ... Keep reading

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Yamaha's Valentino Rossi swapped machines recently, the giants trading Formula 1 for MotoGP and vice versa in a much-anticipated test

The Monaco-born driver broke into the ranks of F1 frontrunners in 2019, taking the most pole positions of any driver. He also entered Ferrari folklore when he won the Scuderia's home Grand Prix at Monza, only the tenth driver in the team's F1 history to do so. He will be the first current Ferrari F1 driver to star at Europe's premier motorsport show when he comes face to face with fans on ... Keep reading

Honda initially hoped it would start the 2019 Formula 1 season with what became its Spec 2 engine, but is "so happy" with the progress made with its actual schedule

After several years in the doldrums, McLaren is finally enjoying success again, both on and off track.